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The Book Booth is a weekly feature at The Political Carnival, relating news, notes, and reflections from the world of books and publishing. It is written by @SeattleDan and SeattleTammy, operators of an on-line bookstore (which you can find here) , who have been in the book business since shortly after the Creation, or close to 6000 years now.

The Book Booth: The Bard Edition

Today, Saturday, is the 400th anniversary of the passing of the Bard in 1616. And it was possibly his birthday as well, making him 52 when he left this mortal coil. He left us with his plays, poetry and introduced as many as 1700 words into the language. Not too shabby!

Miguel Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare's and it may be that they both died on the same day. But there may be more connection between the two writers than that possible coincidence. David Kipen explores that bond here for the LA Times.Will and Miguel

I suppose many of the lines Shakespeare wrote could be proclaimed on stage and not necessarily shouted. However there are some lines that Electric Literature suggests should be shouted. Loudly.To Shout or Not to Shout?

If you don't feel like yelling, you can still throw out some quotes from the writers of the "absurd", if you don't mind being thought as another psychotic wandering the streets. Or as Beckett said, I can't go on, I will go on.Unleash Your Inner Psychotic With These Absurdist Quotes

The Pulitzer Prizes were announced this week and you can see the list of winners here. I admit that I am not familiar with the fiction winner, The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, but from what I've subsequently seen, I need to take a look at it.2016's Pulitzer Prize Winners

I know that Spring is only a month old at this point, but we've been teased by summer like weather here this week, which puts me into the mood. And it looks like there will be a lot of good books arriving soon, including new works from Russell Banks, Don DeLillo, Annie Proulx as well as Richard Russo who has written a sequel to his very fine novel Nobody's Fool, called Everybody's Fool. Publishers Weekly has its summer recommends here.Good Books Arriving In Time For The Summer

I have to admit that when it comes to genre writing, I am not much for romance novels. However, Lucian noticed that a pair of sisters has opened a bookstore devoted to romances called the The Ripped Bodice and I have to admire their ambition. Much good luck to them.This Bookstore Carries Every Romance You Would Ever Want to Read!

#SoHelpUsGod Indiana public school punishes 7-year-old with ‘banishment’ for not believing in God

#GenDumbDown According to the National Research Council report, only 28% of high school science teachers consistently follow the National Research Council guidelines on teaching evolution, and 13% of those teachers explicitly advocate creationism or “intelligent design;” \ A 2008 University of Texas study found that 25 percent of public school biology teachers believe that humans and dinosaurs inhabited the earth simultaneously.

#TisAllAboutEndTImes Christian Zionists are gearing up for a battle where money is no object, facts pose no impediment, and where anti-deal activists will be flooding as many meetings with members of Congress as possible.

#BloodComingFromWhere? Scott Walker: “I’m certainly an imperfect man. And it’s only by the blood of Jesus Christ that I’ve been redeemed from my sins. So I know that God doesn’t call me to do a specific thing, God hasn’t given me a list, a Ten Commandments, if you will, of things to act on the first day.

#Every.Single.Day Cruz: “Well, I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.”

#GiftFromGod Rubio is now saying that he doesn’t think victims of sexual assault should have access to abortion.

#NoneDareCallItTheocracy Huckabee:” It’s time that we recognize the Supreme Court is not the supreme being, and we change the policy to be pro-life and protect children instead of rip up their body parts and sell them like they’re parts to a Buick.”

#HomeschoolHuck “I pledge to kill Common Core & restore common sense. Education is a family function, not a fed function.”

#CruzsVeryScaryTerribleHorribleFirstDay 5 Actions Ted Cruz Says He Would Take on His First Day in the Oval Office

#ErNo Scott Walker claims that Americans share his anti-choice extremism. He’s not even close to right.

#SlimeOfSlime Bryan Fischer says the media should be raising questions about the fact that John Kerry’s son-in-law is Iranian

#Drek Palin appeared on the O’Reilly Factor and delivered a volley of unintelligible rhetoric, insisting that Planned Parenthood targets low-income black women for abortions so the non-profit organization can make money selling black body parts.”

#TheMoneyVideo The in-your-face real world U.S. theocrats, their soulmate politicians and the consequently manipulated myth-buying masses.The folks who ratchet up hatred of others, all in hopes of bringing on the Final War.They should be taken at their word. The world as we know it can well end, and in our lifetimes,should the wrong mix of politicians introduce the Dr. Strangelove world of nuclear weaponry to the next conflict.